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It's very hard to buy prebuilt AMD products into the enterprise still in my experience
by privateSFacct 7y ago
It's very hard to buy prebuilt AMD products into the enterprise still in my experience
- 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 7y agoIt’s generally hard to buy AMD CPUs period.
- nine_k 7y agoLast time I visited a Best Buy in NYC, they had a large desk full of AMD-based laptops, several featuring Ryzen. Maybe they figured availability finally, at least for systems producers.
- shaklee3 7y agoThey're probably speaking about epyc. In general, the availability of epyc, and the number of servers made for it, are very small.
- privateSFacct 7y agoI can buy lots of AMD CPUs and motherboards online - tons available. But prebuild AMD from Dell? No SKU's. I think it's going to be a MAJOR lag there. In part this may be because AMD bios stability has historically been poor - perhaps folks don't want the headaches? But intel bios security with ME has also been poor - soo...
- baroffoos 7y agoI assume there is a pretty big lag between AMD CPUs being much better and prebuilts including them and businesses noticing they are better.